Two Years In The Making, HAC's Transformational Breath Master Track Takes Off With 25 Onboard

HAC Takes The Plunge Into Combining Breath With Bodywork To Build A Better Wellness Professional

    The excitement was palpable at The Healing Arts Center on Thursday, March 16 as one-by-one all twenty-five students took their places in an very large meditation circle.  The River Room was packed. Some students had just graduated from HAC's massage therapy training program the week before.  One had graduated from The Healing Arts Center in 1997.  Some had trained in massage therapy in other schools, while several were not massage therapists at all.   As one HAC graduate put it, "you might come to The Healing Arts Center's massage therapy program for vocational training so that you can get a job, but you come to this class because want to go as deep as you can.   This class is for the committed."   And so it is.  Twenty weeks.  100 hours of instruction in a breath process that changes lives and blows consciousness wide open.  
     For HAC headmaster, Tom Tessereau, this is the culmination of decades of training with some of the pioneers of breathwork like Judith Kravitz.  Tom is an avid practitioner of breathwork and considers it to be his most important health practice.  In his career, he has taught thousands how to release emotional trauma and gain deep personal insight into parts of consciousness not easily accessible even for accomplished meditators. The health effects are outstanding.  As Tom likes to say, "no one ever died from breathing to much."  Basic Transformational Breathwork is a required subject in the Advanced Techniques course, part of HAC's legendary massage therapy program.

     The Healing Arts Center is expanding.   With its student body now over 120 students, HAC is a busy place - and yet its peaceful quite spaces are a comfort to its students.  While most every other massage therapy program in the region have lost the struggle to stay open, HAC takes the point of view that massage therapy is only one essential tool that can be used by what it sees as the Twenty-first Century wellness professional.  "Our first commitment is to well-being", says HAC President, David Kenyon. "This includes the financial and professional well-being of the people we train.  We intend to give them a host of tools to empower them to create diversified wellness practices that can reach everyone in our community.  We are no longer the voice in the wilderness that we have been over the past twenty-seven years.  We are taking our health and well-being evangelism to the streets. It is time to make a radical change in the human relationship to consciousness, health and well-being", Kenyon added.  In a time of skyrocketing health care costs, rampant social health crises like obesity and the steady deterioration of healthy lifestyles, The Healing Arts Center is expanding its curriculum to train the next generation of wellness professionals to intervene in an increasingly sick world.  This fall, the school will offer its second Master Track - Advanced Energy Healing.  This course will take students through three levels of Pranic Healing along with additional techniques such as Reiki and Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) in twenty week 100  hour immersion program.  

"Our first commitment is to well-being.  This includes the financial and professional well-being of the people we train and all members of the wellness community. We intend to give them a host of tools to empower them to create diversified wellness practices that can reach everyone in our community.  We are no longer the voice in the wilderness that we have been over the past twenty-seven years.  We are taking our health and well-being evangelism to the streets. It is time to make a radical change in the human relationship to consciousness, health and well-being."  - HAC President, David Kenyon

    HAC plans to expand its Master Track training programs in multiple directions and is even considering a Master Track program in entrepreneurial business development to help wellness professionals make the most of their skills and create prosperity for themselves and those around them.  The Core Management Group at HAC believes that alternative and complimentary medicine is finally taking its proper place as the conventional medical establishment is being questioned for it over-reliance on pharmaceuticals and surgery and its neglect of natural health processes.  "We need both," says Tom Tessereau, "but we have to come to terms with the fact that ultimately the body heals itself and it is the natural self-healing potential of the human being that must be nurtured and evolved. We are not machines to be repaired like cars with spare parts and chemical additives, though sometimes this is necessary.  We are conscious beings whose natural state is health and balance based on an intimate integration of body, consciousness and environment.  We just have to train ourselves to know how to find our natural balance and protect it."  Tom often points out that two of his own children have survived serious medical conditions only because of the technological advances of modern medicine.   He points out, however, that the "patch-and-fix" mentality of our health care system is displacing the need to preserve health so that medical care isn't necessary.  "Creating and protecting health is the path to true well-being", says Tom.  And he should know.  He is one of the healthiest people we know.

"We have to come to terms with the fact that ultimately the body heals itself and it is the natural self-healing potential of the human being that must be nurtured and evolved. We are not machines to be repaired like cars with spare parts and chemical additives, though sometimes this is necessary.  We are conscious beings whose natural state is health and balance based on an intimate integration of body, consciousness and environment.  We just have to train ourselves to know how to find our natural balance and protect it."   -  HAC Headmaster, Tom Tessereau

    Many of HAC's Master Track programs will not require massage therapy licensure and will be made available to anyone who is serious about training in alternative and complimentary health modalities.   Students do not have to be HAC graduates and, in fact, HAC invites anyone with a passion for health and well-being to join this growing community.   If you have questions about our school or any of our programs, feel free to drop by or call us  as (314) 647-8080.